What's missing?

Most people choose computer software with specific applications in mind. For example: "MYSQL on KDE on Linux is a cheap and convenient way to keep track of stray dogs and cats." Now that KDE has reached a good level of usability more emphasis should be placed on application development.

Do you want KDE to stop its developpement because some people still use GNOME or Windows ?

Total nonsense...

konqueror

Well, i use krusader for filemanaging and opera or mozilla for web-browsing most of the time. How should i benefit from preloading konqueror ? I don't use it very often. It would only slowdown my system. It is the freedom of choice i like about linux, bsd, ..
So if the KDE-developers decide to implement it, please make it optional.

Or maybe it could only start once the first konqueror session was opened.

Re: SPEED problem

three years later and this is still an issue... hrm. I'm running icewm as the window manager and using konqueror as the file manager and web browser. much faster. desktop boots up in about one second on my 400 mHz laptop. konqueror would take about 40 seconds to launch a "preloaded instance" when KDE was the desktop, but when running icewm it takes about 15 straight off the disk. not good, but not bad either. It's still a significant improvement over "preloading" to just dump the kde window manager, and there's no loss in functionality, at least for what I do. All those kdeinits make looking at the process list confusing anyway.

since 15 seconds is still too slow for me I wrote a one-line script that uses DCOP to tell konqueror to open a new window using the currently running process, and plunked that on the desktop. bam! google displays in three seconds.

that should all be on one line, without the quotes.
paste that line in a text file ~/Desktop/google.sh
then, "chmod o+x ~/Desktop/google.sh"

Now, if I could only figure out how to do that with an arbitrary file on the desktop, say if I wanted to look at a .jpg on the desktop without waiting 15 seconds to load konqueror. It's currently an order of magnitude faster to hit ctrl-N in konqueror and drag the file into the new window than to just double click the icon, but that takes too much mental effort to be a useful way to do things.

I wonder why kdesktop exists at all. I would just draw icons on the desktop in a fullscreen konqueror window that has a funny focus policy. kdesktop isn't much use anyway without the rest of KDE installed.

How do you like Plasma 5? The best KDE Desktop ever. Definitely a nice improvement. Not decided yet. Haven't tried it yet. I do not like some of the changes. KDE is taking the wrong way. I am still sticking with KDE 3.5. I have no opinion, but wanted to vote anyway.

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